01-19-2013, 12:08 PM
Lads
Going back on topic (veering off does not bother me I always find it interesting when it happens) I have some findings in my leveling adventure.
I posted this on another forum and I got allot of banter on the use on Digital levels, mainly in the area of how they work. It was pointed out to me that the digital level works by giving you the sum total of error (mine gives you either % or Degrees) in either direction, or another way to look at it is it just gives you a report its not level by whatever. ok!
It does true. But what I was experiencing was a conflict with a variance in the sum numbers not being equal When I turned the level 180* to double check its readout.
Missing my original instructions that came with it I got to study the LCD display and the menu buttons on it, in my mind this is what I came up with on how this should work. Example if it displayed 0.1* high left, turned around it should read either 0.1* high left OR 0.1* low right (if I am wrong please explain) but I dont, I got for example o.1* then turned around it reads 0.0, and I could check one area move somewhere else and then come back to the same spot and it would read 0.2 turned around 0.0 and it would flutter.
This is my assessment, dont use a digital level for fine work ever for this one reason, it flutters with its readings and introduces doubt where your trying to concentrate to achieve something (I called it lying), it consumes so much time in trying to fix something that has many causes for its errors, I analogize this to a fly buzzing around your brain stopping abruptly to catch its breath then taking off again. They are not worth your time or money.
I do have a Inclinometer which I dragged out, ten minutes and a pint later I had it tuned in on a non-level lathe, an hour later 4 more pints the machine was level X-Y, accept for six inch stretch in the middle, this is not the levels fault I plainly blame Atlas for that, the bed is too long with not enough meat to support its self, hence the original fly gaining some company.
Anthony
Going back on topic (veering off does not bother me I always find it interesting when it happens) I have some findings in my leveling adventure.
I posted this on another forum and I got allot of banter on the use on Digital levels, mainly in the area of how they work. It was pointed out to me that the digital level works by giving you the sum total of error (mine gives you either % or Degrees) in either direction, or another way to look at it is it just gives you a report its not level by whatever. ok!
It does true. But what I was experiencing was a conflict with a variance in the sum numbers not being equal When I turned the level 180* to double check its readout.
Missing my original instructions that came with it I got to study the LCD display and the menu buttons on it, in my mind this is what I came up with on how this should work. Example if it displayed 0.1* high left, turned around it should read either 0.1* high left OR 0.1* low right (if I am wrong please explain) but I dont, I got for example o.1* then turned around it reads 0.0, and I could check one area move somewhere else and then come back to the same spot and it would read 0.2 turned around 0.0 and it would flutter.
This is my assessment, dont use a digital level for fine work ever for this one reason, it flutters with its readings and introduces doubt where your trying to concentrate to achieve something (I called it lying), it consumes so much time in trying to fix something that has many causes for its errors, I analogize this to a fly buzzing around your brain stopping abruptly to catch its breath then taking off again. They are not worth your time or money.
I do have a Inclinometer which I dragged out, ten minutes and a pint later I had it tuned in on a non-level lathe, an hour later 4 more pints the machine was level X-Y, accept for six inch stretch in the middle, this is not the levels fault I plainly blame Atlas for that, the bed is too long with not enough meat to support its self, hence the original fly gaining some company.
Anthony
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